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Monday Mar 25, 2013

What happens when you open Gradle, which is built on Gradle, via the NetBeans Gradle plugin? Well, the sky inverts itself and cats start falling from the clouds. Shortly thereafter, though, things start looking pretty sweet (click to enlarge the pic below):

Note: I didn't use the Gradle plugin from the NetBeans Plugin Portal, but directly from the Git repo, where the latest changes are found:

I also needed to make sure that the NetBeans Groovy plugins are installed from the Plugin Manager. Then I opened the sources above into the IDE, right-clicked the project node, and installed the sources directly into the running IDE.

Also, I downloaded the very latest Gradle distro, which right now is 1.5 RC 3, from here:

About

Geertjan Wielenga (@geertjanw) is a Principal Product Manager in the Oracle Developer Tools group living & working in Amsterdam. He is a Java technology enthusiast, evangelist, trainer, speaker, and writer. He blogs here daily.

The focus of this blog is mostly on NetBeans (a development tool primarily for Java programmers), with an occasional reference to NetBeans, and sometimes diverging to topics relating to NetBeans. And then there are days when NetBeans is mentioned, just for a change.